Motorola Seeks Tighter Link Between Phones, TV Boxes

By

Niraj Sheth

Updated Feb. 17, 2010 2:55 p.m. ET

BARCELONA, Spain—Motorola Inc. plans to bring a new email and social-networking function to its television set-top boxes, an early move to share features between its cellphone and home-product divisions.

The two divisions long made products that were treated separately, but they will start moving closer now that Motorola plans to spin them off together into a new company. Sanjay Jha, the Motorola co-CEO who will head the new entity,...